How Florida Small Businesses Can Avoid Payment Processing Fines and Fees
Most Florida small business owners are well aware of their processing rates. As they should be. Unfortunately, many issues with payments occur due to missing PCI requirements, confusion about pricing practices, debit card minimum violations, chargebacks, and hidden fees from processors. Accepting credit and debit cards requires much more than having an excellent rate. To […]
PCI QIR Certification and What it Means
Is Your Merchant and POS Provider QIR Certified? Visa requires all merchants including Level 4 merchants (small businesses) to have their payment processing devices and systems installed by Qualified Integrator and Reseller (QIR). That means ensuring your EMV or chip reader and/or software used in your business is installed, maintained, and serviced by Qualified PCI […]
PCI Basics for Small Merchants
In 2015 the PCI SSC created the Small Merchant Taskforce, a cross-industry consortium of payment security experts, merchant groups and small merchant advocates, to create educational material and suggested next steps to assess risk within a small business environment. The Taskforce drew from their collective payment security and small merchant expertise to create PCI Data […]
TLS Security Is Important!
With all the recent stories about security breaches, you may be wondering what you can do to help secure your data and communications. Transport Layer Security, also known as TLS, is a procedure that provides privacy and data integrity between multiple applications in your systems. TLS is used to create a secure environment for web […]